Garmin BaseCamp for Mac

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Publisher's Description

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From GARMIN Corporation:
BaseCamp is a 3D mapping application that allows you to transfer Garmin Custom Maps, BirdsEye Imagery, waypoints, tracks, and routes between your Mac and Garmin device. It allows you to manage your data on practically all Garmin map products, but topographic maps are required for 3-D rendering.

This guaranteed to NOT FIND an address, be difficult to use, take more time to plot than to drive there, and tech support admits this is a really poor program, that you should manually input your addresses into the Nuvi and take your chances. Garmin could care less about the fact this is a genuine cluster-crap of a product. When asked, they said that if I did not like the product, I should buy something else.
What I want...type addresses in routes, have the device find the addresses, create an efficient route, allow me to alter the route for appointments, and send it to the device. 10 addresses will take you at least an hour, and it is NOT likely to find three of the addresses, even if you can see them in Google.

I can download the recorded tracks form my Garmin Fenix, and then get them onto Google Earth for viewing, but that's about the only useful useable feature so far.

Cons

Crashes on startup. Completely useless home map screen with no discernable location features.Wasted enough time already, and won't bother persevering. Garmin seem to have missed an amazing opportunity here - computer interfaces for mobile devices seem to be an essential part of viable business in the 21c, so maybe Garmin may not be around - the Nokia of navigation?

You can transfer your routes made by other softwares to your Garmin device

Cons

It is only built to create very simple point-to-point routes. If you need to create a more complex loop for example to bike 70 miles with 50 turns in it, the software is extremely difficult to use. And it is full of bugs: i.e.: if you need to stop drawing your Route, it is pretty much impossible to simply go back and continue. Editing already finished routes is not possible any simple way (sure you can add a waypoint as they show in their tutorial video, but again, if you have a route with hundreds of waypoints, you won't even know where to insert it). Many more problems simply too many to count.

Summary

Don't waste your time with this software, there are plenty of other very functional free softwares/websites that can do the job.

Non! It just does not work!It crashes when I try to export a track to my Garmin device... every time!And that what works is useless!

Cons

This software is so bad, it should not be on the market to bother people and waste their time!!!

I work with this program like twi times a year, since years... and each time I update everything because my last experience was so bad, I fist Update, maybe some things work now!Just to be frustrated after wasting 30min again on this program...And then I think of contacting the support... what I do not do, because this will result in more frustration... the Garmin Support belongs to the worst on earth!

Summary

Just leave all Garmin software be... the only thing that really works well is the Garmin ANT Agent...It connects to your Garmin, can work fine with Trainer-road and the Ant-Stick and Updates your Garmin Hardware.For everything else, there are much better things around.

Well, the whole point of having a Garmin GPS is to navigate. Navigation requires maps. My device (Etrex 20) has a basemap, which is quite good. When I try to plan a route on BaseCamp all I can get is a very low detail basemap, with almost no features and no terrain detail. How can I use this?

Summary

No use at all unless you buy additional maps. I've wasted hours on this, and in the end decided to leave my Garmin at home and take a paper map for my next hike.

Impossibly frustrating trying to use it. I have very often a need to input multiple waypoints before heading out on a trip. The search feature is terrible in that it can't be told to look in a specific geographic region or city. It's just a total mess and should be an embarrassment to Garmin. It's far faster to input my waypoints on the GPS unit, which is just stupid!

its free. Apart from that its basically useless to me. oh wait - the adventures is a cool feature. The rest of it sucks so badly I got online just to write a negative review about it after being unable to see any usable amount of details in it after 3 hours of messing around.

Cons

clearly just designed as a mechanism to sell their maps, cause its bloody useless by itself.

Summary

Piece of ****. Seriously.There are so many free detailed datasources online Garmin should link to some of them to give you basic route planning capabilities. The software is clearly designed to be so painful as to force people to buy mas to make any planning aspect of it actually useful.Get your act together guys. The hardware is great, priced reasonably. Even the software installed on the hardware is alright. What happened with the team that made this? Fire the Product Manager - or get one if you dont have one!

I usualy hate the lingo of youth but OMG!! no realy **** what a pile of....Considering the garmin satnav i use(nuvi 1490) is so good how on earth did the same people come up with this totally useless unuseable pileTwo simple functions required from this software 1.auto plan a route 2. upload to device ....the second bit works!!!!!!!I doubt that even the people that wrote this can make it be usefull..very dissapointing.

What a piece of crap. The most unintuitive, cranky, time sucking worthless piece of software. I love my Nuvi GPS and I've used older Garmin software. It was klutzy but worked but this/?? I'm on a Mac so maybe...???? I have a PhD and am a bit of a computer geek......this is just not working. Colour me seriously frustrated after two hours. All I wanted was to make a simple route and download to my Nuvi. Damn I am so frustrated.

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